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Rock The Bells held a press conference in New York City last night where they announced the addition of 17 more acts to an already-impressive 10th anniversary lineup. The traveling festival—which will take place over four weekends in San Bernardino, ...

Later today, former XXL Freshman and consistently nice dude Asher Roth will drop new mixtape Greenhouse Effect Volume 2, or GEV2 for short. Arriving five years after the first volume of GE, which was released in the midst of Asher's ...

On this day, June 25, in hip-hop history….
1996: Seventeen years ago to date Jay-Z released his classic debut Reasonable doubt, the start of what some may call the greatest rap career of all time. Now a hip-hop mogul, Jay-Z has ...

"We ain’t supposed to never have nothing/We ain’t supposed to never have shit,” Wale raps on his third LP. The MMG rapper speaks about his come up as if he’s still living that experience. You really can’t fault Wale for ...

Where were you in 1993? Hopefully, you were here. DJ Tony Touch drops off another throwback episode in light of The Piece Maker 3: Return Of The 50 MC’s, hitting stores July 9. This time, Nas is performing in the ...

Antwon is a multilayered ball of personality who lives mainly off of love and fun. Over the last couple years, the San Jose native has had to shake of B.I.G. sound-alike tags while crafting a beautifully chaotic mesh of 90’s ...

Kevin Gates continues to rise with strong efforts from his forthcoming album, Stranger Than Fiction. The latest is “4:30 A.M.,” which is short and straight to the point. Gates recalls a night during one of his street hustles that turns ...

Big Sean revealed the release date of his upcoming album, Hall Of Fame, setting the date as August 27th. Today, he releases a cut off this project with "Beware" featuring Jhene Aiko and Lil Wayne. You can listen to the ...

Bam Bam and Harry Fraud aren't done dropping new records, even though this one may have been made over a year before their collaborative EP Saaab Stories dropped a few weeks ago. Even as great as that seven-track collection was, had ...